AEA is a two-day one-track conference in four cities throughout the year. As the website states, “If you care about code as well as content, usability as well as design, An Event Apart is the conference you’ve been waiting for.” Read more about it.

Though I’ve never previously attended AEA, I’ve heard about it for years as a longtime reader of A List Apart — I think it was the first professional publication I started reading when I graduated college. I was blown away when Jeffrey, whom I work with at Happy Cog, asked if I would be interested in being a speaker this year. I eagerly said yes with no hesitation, lest he change his mind!

While I don’t know the exact topic of my presentation, you can rest assured it’ll somehow be about user experience ;) How incredible would it be if I decided to randomly speak about my PEZ dispenser collection or some such thing?! It’s likely that I’ll be talking about common misconceptions in UX, a topic I’ve been thinking about a lot lately — an article is in the works, so stay tuned.